
Argentina and Uruguay
by Gordon Ross
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ross, Gordon
- Credits
- Produced by MFR, Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F2801: Latin America local history: Argentina
- Subject
- Uruguay
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56186
- Release Date
- December 16, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.LIST OF DIAGRAMS
- 5.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND THANKS — ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY BEFORE THE WAR AND AFTER
- 6.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- 7.CHAPTER II THE WAR ITS PRESENT AND PROBABLE FUTURE EFFECTS ON ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY
- 8.CHAPTER III HISTORY AND POLITICS
- 9.CHAPTER IV RACIAL ELEMENTS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS — LANGUAGE — ARGENTINES AND URUGUAYANS
- 10.CHAPTER V NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL, AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
- 11.CHAPTER VI MONTEVIDEO AND BUENOS AIRES
- 12.CHAPTER VII FINANCE AND COMMERCE — CURRENCY — THE ARGENTINE MONETARY SYSTEM — COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS — THE BUENOS AIRES STOCK EXCHANGE
- 13.CHAPTER VIII RAILWAYS, PORTS AND IMMIGRATION — RAILWAYS — PORTS — IMMIGRATION
- 14.CHAPTER IX GENERAL STATISTICS — UNITED KINGDOM IMPORTS IN 1913 — POSITIONS HELD BY ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY RESPECTIVELY IN THE EXPORT TRADE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ACCORDING TO BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, 1913. — 1913 — THE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICA IS SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES COMPILED FROM AMERICAN OFFICIAL STATISTICS — VALUE OF MERCHANDISE EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICA IN THE YEAR 1913, SHOWING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARGENTINE MARKET — ARGENTINE IMPORTS FROM EUROPE, 1913 — GOLD (Argentina) — INCREASE OF ARGENTINE CEREAL EXPORTS IN TEN YEARS — INCREASE OF ARGENTINE MEAT EXPORTS IN TWENTY-NINE YEARS — INCREASE OF TOTAL ARGENTINE EXPORTS IN TEN YEARS — INCREASE OF TOTAL URUGUAYAN EXPORTS IN EIGHT YEARS
- 15.CHAPTER X A GLANCE AT THE PROVINCES AND NATIONAL TERRITORIES OF ARGENTINA, AND THE INTERIOR OF URUGUAY — BUENOS AIRES — SANTA FÉ — CÓRDOBA — ENTRE RIOS — CORRIENTES — SAN LUIS — SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO — TUCUMÁN — CATAMARCA — LA RIOJA — JUJUY — SALTA — MENDOZA — SAN JUAN — NATIONAL TERRITORIES — THE PAMPA CENTRAL — NEUQUEN — RIO NEGRO — CHUBUT — SANTA CRUZ — TIERRA DEL FUEGO — MISIONES — FORMOSA — URUGUAY
- 16.CHAPTER XI AGRICULTURE — THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARGENTINE AGRICULTURE, 1896-1913 — CULTIVATED AREAS IN HECTARES [41] — EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, 1875-1913 — THE SOIL
- 17.CHAPTER XII LIVE STOCK — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 1895 AND 1908 — PEDIGREE BULLS AND COWS — PEDIGREE RAMS AND EWES — ARGENTINE LIVE STOCK (LAST CENSUS, 30th MAY, 1908) — EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL ARGENTINE ANIMAL PRODUCTS, 1885 TO 1913 — THE MEAT TRADE — MEAT TRADE EXPORTS FROM 1885 TO 1913
- 18.CHAPTER XIII FORESTRY — Chief Indigenous Species of Forest Trees — Chief Species of Exotic Forest Trees Grown in the Country — Exotic Forest Trees which it would be well to Introduce
- 19.CHAPTER XIV LITERATURE AND ART
- 20.FOOTNOTES
- 21.INDEX
- 22.A SELECTION OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY METHUEN AND CO. LTD. LONDON 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. — CONTENTS — A SELECTION OF Messrs. Methuen’s PUBLICATIONS — Part II.—A Selection of Series — Ancient Cities — The Antiquary’s Books — The Arden Shakespeare — Classics of Art — The ‘Complete’ Series — The Connoisseur’s Library — Handbooks of English Church History — Handbooks of Theology — Health Series — The ‘Home Life’ Series — Leaders of Religion — The Library of Devotion — Little Books on Art — The Little Guides — The Little Library — The Little Quarto Shakespeare — Miniature Library — The New Library of Medicine — The New Library of Music — Oxford Biographies — Seven Plays — Sport Series — The States of Italy — The Westminster Commentaries — The ‘Young’ Series — Methuen’s Shilling Library — Books for Travellers — Some Books on Art — Some Books on Italy — Part III.—A Selection of Works of Fiction — Books for Boys and Girls — Methuen’s Shilling Novels — Methuen’s Sevenpenny Novels
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